Erin Jordan

Erin Jordan | Iowa Capital Dispatch Most golf courses, once planned and built, stay the same even as the game changes and golfers and their gear improve.

Most golf courses, once planned and built, stay the same even as the game changes and golfers and their gear improve.

Miscanthus grass turned into fuel pellets have helped the University of Iowa reach its goal of being coal-free by 2025. The UI burns the pellets instead of coal.

As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out without air conditioning. Prolonged heat waves behind bars can cause heat stroke and exacerbate chronic conditions like asthma, heart ailments and arthritis. Studies also show prisons without air conditioning are more violent. For years, the Iowa […]

As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out without air conditioning.

Prolonged heat waves behind bars can cause heat stroke and exacerbate chronic conditions like asthma, heart ailments and arthritis.

As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out without air conditioning. Prolonged heat waves behind bars can cause heat stroke and exacerbate chronic conditions like asthma, heart ailments and arthritis. Studies also show prisons without air conditioning are more violent. For years, the Iowa […]

As summer temperatures rise into the 90s, more than 1,000 Iowa prisoners and correctional officers are sweating it out without air conditioning.

The Iowa Corrections Department has been selling farmland around state prisons and has nearly $8 million left after other repairs and renovations. Agency leaders won’t say whether they intend to

IOWA CITY — The University of Iowa has signed a new contract with a Wisconsin company to make fuel pellets out of miscanthus grass and other feedstocks to replace coal.